Play Movies in Background Layer?

[Rick Harrison]

Hi Jacque,

Wow, alwaysBuffer worked just fine for this!
Talk about an obscure feature this imparts.
How would one even guess at that property?

Thanks!

Rick

On Nov 4, 2013, at 3:39 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> On 11/4/13 8:39 AM, Rick Harrison wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> I’m currently working on a game in which
>> I would like to be able to play a movie
>> in a player which is behind other graphics.
>> 
>> Whenever I tell the movie to play, LiveCode
>> automatically brings the player to the
>> top layer, thus defeating my purpose.
>> 
>> Can this be done at all?
>> If not are there any work arounds?
> 
> See "alwaysBuffer" in the dictionary. If the alwaysBuffer of player is true you can place other objects on top of it. But there are side effects and won't work on Windows if you aren't using QuickTime.
> 
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